About me :-)

This is my personal site and is not affiliated with any companies I have or currently work for. I will, in general, often be posting about technical information or solutions I have come across or created myself but this may not always be the case. I do enjoy many things beyond the world of computers and those things may end up on this site from time to time. At any rate, I hope what I post on here is useful to others and if not that is ok too 😉

Who I Am

My name is Chris Silvertooth and am married to my beautiful wife Amy. I also have 3 frenetic boys which keep me very busy when I am not messing with computers or other random projects. I have been working in the computer industry for the last 14 years. I previously worked as a Senior Consultant that was focused on Mac and iOS Integration. I am also certified in Linux and utilize VMware and other Datacenter technologies on a daily basis. I am not a programmer but can cobble together some garbage that meets my goals. I will, if it seems useful, post said garbage to my downloads section.

Hi, I’ve a hard drive, 1tb that’s two partitions now, one Snow Leopard for some apps I need, and the other is Mavericks. I wanted to create a recovery part ion in the Mavericks partition, would the fact that I have two partitions now impact things? I don’t want to loose either one. I just want to carve a little out of the Mavericks partition to make it’s recovery partition.
Thanks in advance!

I just used Recovery Partition Creator 3.8 to install recovery partitions on a couple of USB drives, in order to be able to clone (via Super Duper) my computer’s internal drive to them, and make them both encrypted and bootable. Thanks!

I do have a question — my Mac, and the drives, are currently at Mountain Lion (to avoid surprises for other users in the family). I plan to update to El Capitan soon (it’s time …). Can I re-run RPC on the same drives but point to an El Cap installer, and have the OS and/or other things in the recovery partition updated to El Cap? Or if not, can you recommend a procedure that would accomplish the same goal?

iMac late 2009
I have used your Recovery Partition Creator with El Capitan before and it has worked ok, but after a recent apple update to v 10.11.1 the software is reporting “NOT COMPATIBLE WTH THIS SOFTWARE VERSION”. I hope this information is of use, your software has been a life saver in the past.

I’m on OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan.
When I try to use “Recovery Partition Creator 4.0.1.app”, I get the following result: “The mainDrive variable is undefined” (“La variable mainDrive n’est pas définie”) and no installation is done.
I chose the correct disk and “Install OS X El Capitan.app”.
Is it possible that this is because I want to make this installation on the startup disk?
Note: The download gives me “Recovery Partition Creator 4.0.1.app” but the info window give me “4.0 – Thursday 5th May 2016 – 4:22 p.m.”
Thank you
Google translation

Thank you very much…
But I still have the same problem with “Recovery Partition Creator 4.0.2.app” :
“The mainDrive variable is undefined” (“La variable mainDrive n’est pas définie”) and no installation is done.
Cheers,
Alain
Google translation